Brian Charlesworth

Brian Charlesworth
FRSE, FRS
Born
Brian Charlesworth

(1945-04-29) 29 April 1945
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Spouse
(m. 1967)
Children1 daughter
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
Institutions
ThesisGenetic variation in viability in Drosophila melanogaster (1968)
Doctoral studentsMichael R. Rose
Other notable studentsGilean McVean (postdoc)

Brian Charlesworth FRS FRSE (born 29 April 1945) is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of Biology Letters. Since 1997, he has been Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) in Edinburgh. He has been married since 1967 to the British evolutionary biologist Deborah Charlesworth.